I'm fully willing to accept that he was at least a little anti-Semitic, in much the same way that most people over 60 today are still a little bit racist.

Oh. Oh wow.

I spent so many years as a kid thinking that D was, like, a backwards G or something. I still have trouble unseeing it to this day.

Good criticism: Walt Disney was a control freak whose fundamental optimism often blinded him to the way the world really worked. He played favorites, giving his creative teams much better compensation and perks than his rank-and-file workers, despite the latter group working almost inhumane hours, because he perceived…

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

You know he didn't write his own lines/arc, right?

See, what I got from that was that Joy quit Rand.

"Jeph Loeb struggled to find a showrunner who wanted to tell an Iron Fist story, and eventually settled for Scott Buck who could just get it done"

Jessica Jones
Daredevil 1
Luke Cage
Iron Fist
Daredevil 2

"Come on, Colleen, let's go climb that mountain!"
"Should I bring a hat?"
"Nah."

Thank you.

I'm a little peeved about this since my senior thesis was a screenplay with a (somewhat) similar premise*. At least this seems bad enough that no one will remember it.

If I can start watching LOST in Season 4 and manage to keep up, you can watch The Defenders without seeing this.

But he also saved Elektra from… oh.

Unless you defend them against yourself in court…

The real one, that you get paid for, not the suicidal one that you made up yourself!

It's Skylar White syndrome.

He looked down at the bottom of the screen and saw that it was Episode 12.

OH! AND it better parallels the whole 'child soldier' thing we've got going on with Danny and Davos.

So I stumbled into this realization yesterday while making what I meant to be a joke, but a coherent throughline for this season would have been so easy.